Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (July 17, 2024)
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Published 2024-07-17
Originally livestreamed at: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram
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00:00 Start stream
4:30-8:30 SW starts talking - quick reflections on Wolfram Summer School and SW's recent discussion with a robot
8:32-22:59 I loved the discussion with a robot! Based on that talk, how you imagine a future of robots in business? (Robot coworkers, bosses, assistants, etc). Will robots be able to effectively communicate with their human companions and vice versa?
23:06-33:29 What business ideas can you think of for useful AI applications? How can we make building your own AI for your purpose easy and affordable (such as having a bot that helps me find weekly coupons and savings for my grocery trips or mapping ideal travel times)?
33:44-37:23 What do you think of "robots" remotely operated by humans as a precursor to autonomous robots? A new spin on outsourced blue collar labour?
37:38-45:18 I believe that another crucial thing is that not only technologies adapt to people demands, but humans quickly adapt to technologies demands in field of skills. Just recall, how weird computer mouse was for us about 30 (maybe 40, I am not so old ) years ago.
00:45:27-00:49:22 It is very useful for us humans to understand what the AI knows when it outputs its LLM computations.
49:28-1:04:14 Maybe some layered hybrid architecture may work with like LLMs providing the base so to speak while the other modules do more to correct what is there perhaps...?
1:04:19-1:05:53 What's the gold in AI, LLMs, etc, I mean is there some simpler algorithm that can learn, instead of big neural networks? Like trying to find gold in a goldmine?
1:06:02-1:11:53 What do you make of the apparent disconnect between the heavy capex into AI infra, vs the lagging revenues from applications at present time? Are we in for a "2000 telecom/fiber" like setback?
1:11:59-1:15:11 For full robot integration into human society, will we see robot "coffee shops" where robots will be able to go and refuel/charge? What business opportunities would working robots open up?
1:15:31-1:18:24 How was your annual summer of professoring? Kudos to all the student projects!
1:18:40-1:22:12 Will you let future robots enroll in summer school?
1:22:41 End stream
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All Comments (3)
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It strikes me as clear that multimodal models will dominate this sort of robotic humanoid LLM interaction at some point -- tonality, pacing, body language etc. make up a drastic amount of human (sub) communication, and this needs to be considered. Neat that the one you had a chat with was a localized model, a fine tuned Llama variant I assume? I'd like to see your conversation with an improved/tweaked version and on a SoTA non-local LLM, just for comparison sake to get a closer gauge of how far we are out from genuine comfortable interaction.
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Cute objects on the desk sir😙👀
